MISSION TO RUSSIA

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 219, 16 September 1943, Page 5

MISSION TO RUSSIA

MR. HARRIMAN AND MR. EDEN Recd. 6 p.m. New York. Sept. 14. Mr. W. A. Har’ imam lend-lease coordinator in London and one of President Roosevelt’s most trustee: advisers, has been asked to undertake a special mission to Russia, which may end in his appointment as Ambassador in place of Admiral Standley, says the New York Herald-Tribune. Mr. Harriman attended the Quebec conference and headed a special mission lo Moscow in 1941. A London message says that the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden, is going to Moscow with Mr. Harriman shortly after Mr. Churchill’s return from Washington, says the Evening Standard diplomatic correspondent, Mr. Cordell Hull is coming to London in October in connection with the proposed Three-Power conference. While Mr. Harriman may succeed Admira: Standley as United States Ambassador in Moscow his present mission is largely to ensure increased food supplies for Russia through the winter. sort the Allied Command threw some: units of .the United States Seventh; Army into the battle, “but even these j crack American troops were unabM to change the fortune of a battle that had been lost already.” An Algiers <iir communique says that medium-bombers and light bomo■ers of the North-west African Air Force attacked road junctions, railways, and enemy transport in the Potenza area and also the railwayjunctions of Torre del Greco ano Pompeii (Naples), and in the Sala Consilina ai|?a, south-east of Salerno. Fighters yesterday destroyed 1C enemy aircraft over the battle area. Algiers radio says that violent opposition to the German occnnyina forces is spreading in northern Italy, where sabotage strikes are going on. Street fighting is occurring in Rome. Italian troops are challenging Germans from Trieste to Albania.